Just another clueless asshole.
this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2025
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Ah another closet republican, nice
More woke, less selling out your citizens to the wealthy. Thats what I want.
Read the fucking article before you comment. It's obvious most did not.
I disagree. How exactly is that obvious?
You're just sore that we all think she's DNC trash.
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I understand where people are coming from when they say "identity politics" are politics getting in the way of class struggle. I vehemently disagree with it, these are also important issues we need to stand up for even when they are sometimes unpopular, but I understand where it comes from.
But if she also thinks we shouldn't be talking about class either, what the fuck does she want to do?
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I'm an independent but mostly lefty guy and this lady has never sat well with me. She's a corporate dem through and through.
"I can't believe the country doesn't get this!? The Republicans won and they hate this stuff so we just need to be Republicans and then we can win!"
.... /wrist
Slotkin is the kind of Democrat who will be literally seig heiling at the DNC convention in ten years if the party continues to pursue the policies of capitulation that she is advocating for here. Four decades of this approach by this party has enabled the rise of US fascism we are dealing with now.
If anybody wanted to read the article (ha! yeah, I know) she's not saying we should lose 'woke' ideology or stop attacking 'oligarchy'. She says the opposite of those things, which was phrased by mediaite this way for clickbait reasons.
What she's saying is to use the word "kings" instead of "oligarchy". Which I get. Sure - do that. Makes sense. Same argument, same vitriol, more punch.
As for the 'woke' part, she said:
Detailing her plan, Slotkin – a former analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – argued that the Democratic Party needed to lose its “weak and woke” reputation and “fucking retake the flag,” adopting a “goddamn Alpha energy” inspired by Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell.
She's mad as fuck and doesn't want to explain why people need to be treated with respect - it should be a given and we don't need to explain it.
So there's sixty comments on here so far, most of them railing against her but I don't see it. I think she's been misinterpreted, deliberately, in the case of the mediaite headline writer.
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Whelp.
Guess Slotkin is getting a “collaborator” postcard from me.
The problem with people with no moral or intellectual compass is that they just look around them for what's 'working' and attempt to copy that.
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It's almost like she is insulting her fellow citizens.
The implication that I see (based on her statement) is that other people in her country lack the capability to comprehend the notion of oligarchy or they are too corrupt themselves to support anti-corruption reform.
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Sounds like a moron who needs to be primaried.
bye felicia
Literally, the opposite of what they should be doing. And saying Americans are too stupid to understand a word like "oligarchy" isn't a good look, either.
"Dem senator is a compromised lackey"
Yeah, no shit. That's the problem.